Saturday, February 24, 2007

It's Finally Done.

What began in May 2005 as an assignment to completely redesign the entire product line for a major publisher's reading ancillaries finally finished this morning with the last 6,500 pages being piled into the back of a FedEx truck. While my involvement only goes back to about July of 2005, here's a quick summary of what the past year and a half have seen:

14 rounds of design revisions;
6 focus groups;
components from 878 individual books;
2 editions of the same books;
2 completely different production teams;
the assistance of 2 other senior Project Managers;
at least 30 different editors, and;
6 different client contacts.

All for a total of over 17,000 finished pages (which is actually 3 times that number, when you count earlier rounds);

If I wasn't so damn tired right now, I'd be out celebrating.

But even still...I'm pretty damn proud of myself and my team.

I'm sure going to miss them.

3 comments:

apsison said...

wow, quite an accomplishment!
congrats

hotfish said...

So... why are you still hiding out? :p

The Other Pete said...

Because I've decided to return to work on a novel that I started in November 2005. I have about 23,000 words written and will need about 90,000 before I can do anything with it, so I have quite a bit more writing ahead of me.